Leader Profiles

Tikkun America Apostolic Team

Dan Juster

Daniel Juster is the senior apostolic leader of Tikkun America and is on the Board of Directors for Tikkun International. He been married to his wife Patty for over fifty years and they have four children and eleven grandchildren. Dan is one of the founders of Tikkun Global and leads the teaching ministry Restoration From Zion. Dan and Patty live in Israel and come back to the States twice a year to visit the Tikkun America congregations and teach.


Glenn Blank

Glenn Blank has served as the congregational leader of Tikkun congregation Beit Simcha since it began in 1992, he is married to Pamela and they have two children and two grandchildren. In 2011 Glenn retired as Professor Emeritus from Lehigh University in order to pursue full time ministry. He also chairs the Tikkun America Conference Oversight Committee and serves as Literary Editor for the Tree of Life Bible.


Richard Cleary

Richard Cleary is the senior leader of Kingdom Living in Kansas City, MO.  Richard also serves on the Tikkun America Apostolic Team. He earned a Bachelors Degree in Business & Professional Leadership at Southeastern University and then attended Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando where he began a Masters of Divinity Degree. He later transferred to The King’s University & Seminary to complete a Masters of Divinity with concentration in Messianic Jewish studies. Today Richard serves as the Lead Pastor on a strong eldership team of gifted men that lead called Kingdom Living/Mamlacha Chai congregation together.  Their leadership team consists of covenant friends who get to serve an incredible community of Messiah’s followers. Richard is married to Sarah Elise and has three children.


Benjamin Juster

Benjamin is the President of Tikkun America and one of the shaliach leaders on the Tikkun America Apostolic Team. Raised in the Messianic movement and a former Vice President of the UMJCY, Benjamin has a continuing passion for seeing people reach their potential in Yeshua. He holds a Masters degree in Messianic Jewish Studies from MJTI. He served as the Executive Director of Tikkun International before being appointed the President of Tikkun America in January 2020. Benjamin’s focus is on planting messianic congregations, mentoring and releasing emerging leaders, and building unity among churches and ministries to stand with Israel today and in preparation for the end times. Benjamin and Lorena also help to lead the international teaching ministry Restoration From Zion, affiliated with Tikkun Global. Benjamin, his wife Lorena, and three children live in Jacksonville, Florida.


Michael Rudolph

Michael lives in Maryland with his wife Maria. He serves as one of the associate apostolic leaders within the Tikkun America network.  He is a retired lawyer and came to faith in Yeshua in 1976. He is the founding elder of Tikkun congregation Ahavat Yeshua in Washington DC and currently leads Tikkun congregation Ohev Yisrael in Virginia. Michael is working on a book of Messianic Jewish halachah, which you can access here.


Frank Susler

Frank Susler was raised in a conservative Jewish home in Milwaukee, WI. He came to faith in Messiah Yeshua in 1974 while stationed with the US Air Force in Anchorage, Alaska. After graduating from Bible College, he was ordained a Pastor while attending Abbott Loop Christian Center. Frank pioneered Grace Christian Fellowship in Milwaukee in 1981, later birthing three congregations through this ministry. He earned a PhD in Counseling Psychology and founded a  Christian Counseling Clinic. He serves as an apostolic leader within the Tikkun America network, working with congregations to help  strengthen leadership and ministries. Frank is currently Pastor Emeritus at Grace Christian Fellowship and Rabbi Emeritus at Beth Messiah, which was founded in 2005 with his son, Jim. Frank has been married to Patricia for over 45 years. They have four grown children, 11 grandchildren, and one great grandchild.


Michael Weiner

Michael was raised in a Conservative Synagogue in Pensacola, Florida and married his wife Ann in 1976. After coming to faith in Yeshua at  Ohev Yisrael, Michael served there as a shamash (deacon). In 1997, Ann and Michael founded Shomair Yisrael in Knoxville, TN. 20 years later, Michael received a rabbinical S’micha (certification) from Tikkun America. In late 2017 the congregation purchased their current synagogue building located on 4.5 acres of land with a view of the Smoky Mountains.  Sadly, Michael’s wife of 42 years, Ann, passed away after a long illness in January of 2018. Following a season of healing Michael reports he is blessed to love again. Jan Strous and Michael were married on March 23, 2020. Jan has served as a Bible teacher and leader in the East Tennessee region for the last 18 years. Now, Jan and Michael will work together in the kingdom of God to bless His community at Shomair Yisrael and beyond.


Tom Blake

Tom and his wife Leah first became elders and part-time staff at Kingdom Living in 20078. They were ordained as Tikkun Emmissaries in 2011 and live in Jerusalem, Israel from 2012-2014. In Israel, they connected with the Tikkun network and Tom studied the Bible from a Hebraic perspective as part of a PhD program at the University of the Holy Land. They moved back from Jerusalem in 2014 and helped Kingdom Living transition from a home congregation yo a weekly public Shabbat service. Tom serves as a teaching elder and pastor and recently completed his doctoral studies at the King’s University. Tom came on to the AAT in June 2022.


Aaron Allsbrook

Born and raised in Southern California, Rabbi Aaron Allsbrook has known Yeshua his whole life. He shared about Yeshua to his Jewish and non-Jewish friends in high school. At the end of high school Rabbi Aaron began to feel that there was more to his Jewishness than just Passover and Hanukkah at his grandparents. It was in New York that he was a special education teacher and an assistant rabbi at a Messianic synagogue on Long Island. After several years of serving in this capacity, he wanted to pursue being a full-time Messianic rabbi, which is what led him to Ohev Yisrael. He desires to see Jewish people come to know Yeshua, their Messiah, and live their life in service of our Master as Jews full of the Spirit of God. Aaron has served on the Tikkun America Apostolic Team since June 2022.


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